Advertise on diaspora improvements, new features, side projects (packages for linux) bug fixes.

What would also be cool, and totally necessary: we need those bloggers to help spread positive things about the project and the changes it's going through. The New York Times made a pretty negative article about Diaspora "dying as a project", and a lot of other news sites took that interpretation and ran with it.

We need to demonstrate that this project is in fact very much alive. The ball is already starting to roll on things being done. We're putting together a LaunchPad PPA to try to make installation stupidly easy to do. We're stripping out unwanted features, and we're getting more active pull requests now than we have in the last few weeks. The problem is that we don't have the greatest press right now. Diaspora needs to be promoted by the people that are passionate about using it and working with it.

We need a street team to spread news of the good things happening to this project. There are a lot of talented people that could be convinced to try us out, and maybe even join the community. It's a simple growth model through user advocacy, and the community following through on its plans and promises.

I think the blog post didn't give a positive image of the project.

I write a news on a famous french site (developpez.com), so maybe I save some hope there ^{^}

I can work on communication in the french community

I like the planet thing too. Drupal of course would do very much. Willing to help there too.

I just found this thread again, and I was thinking, what about a new little div in the right column which indicates new about the project and we could dynamically update?

For example, we set up a blog on diasporafoundation, and each time a new blog post is posted, the div inside diaspora is updated with the first sentences of the blogpost and an link to the blog.

I like it, I think such a feature would greatly improve the usefulness of the sidebar.

The sidebar defo needs some love - and dynamic content from official "foundation" sources would be great for users.